MACEY, Frederick George
| Service Number: | WX10019 |
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| Enlisted: | 13 December 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Leederville, Western Australia, 4 January 1916 |
| Home Town: | Perth, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | 15 August 1996, aged 80 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia Lance Howard Memorial Gardens, Karrakatta |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 13 Dec 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX10019 | |
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| 29 Aug 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX10019 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Cherilyn McMeekin
Frederick was the youngest son of William and Rose, and the seventh of nine children. One of his four brothers died in infancy, and two served in WWII. His father William had served in the 11th Battalion in WWI.
Frederick's parents had married in Southampton in England in 1901 and were in Perth, WA by 1907. His father William died in 1937 (see https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/41597203).
Frederick enlisted in 1940. He was a POW on board the Italian transport ship Nino Bixio when it was torpedoed by a British submarine in the Mediterranean on 17 August 1942. The Nino Bixio was transporting Allied POWs from Libya to Italy. He was one of the 122 Australian POWs to survive the incident. Most of the 41 casualties were from Frederick's battalion.